Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 2: Out of deference to persons who may still be living.
Speaker 2: Character names in some of these true unsolved mysteries have
Speaker 2: been changed. The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.
Speaker 2: Nor all thy piety nor wit can lure it back
Speaker 2: to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears watch
Speaker 2: out a word of it. In all the history of
Speaker 2: crime and criminals, the truth of that quotation was never
Speaker 2: better proved than in the amazing case of Beilaquise, the
Speaker 2: mystery Man of Europe.
Speaker 3: This seas.
Speaker 2: It is the year nineteen hundred and fourteen. The scene
Speaker 2: is the office of the Chief of Police in Budapest.
Speaker 2: The chief is seated behind his desk, while in the
Speaker 2: doorway stands a woman.
Speaker 1: Her face is white.
Speaker 2: Terror stares from her eyes, and her hands tremble as
Speaker 2: she tears her tiny handkerchief to pieces.
Speaker 4: But if you must believe me, your assistant does not.
Speaker 4: But I tell you someone to be chilled if you
Speaker 4: do not listen to what I have to say.
Speaker 5: Pursing down my chair, calm yourself, Are you ready to
Speaker 5: listen to your story?
Speaker 4: Last night I sat next to a gentleman. We looked
Speaker 4: like a gentleman. We spoke about a program.
Speaker 1: You understand, I understand.
Speaker 5: Then, having spoken to him of the program, he suggested
Speaker 5: you have suppers. Didn't for a drive in his motor car,
Speaker 5: and he asked you how you'd like your visits all?
Speaker 1: How do I know?
Speaker 5: He's always the same story of how much money did
Speaker 5: he rub your money?
Speaker 4: That I had no money. She did not robbed me.
Speaker 1: He tried to kill me. It was horrible.
Speaker 4: I handly died of fat.
Speaker 1: I now now complete this story.
Speaker 4: I don't read home my cartle it was. He asked
Speaker 4: if I would like to have my fortune told. I
Speaker 4: said yes. He told me to gave him the crystal globe,
Speaker 4: but first he gave me some pale yellow wine to drink.
Speaker 1: Ah, go on, I said, My senses sleeping away from me.
Speaker 4: I was stealing hard in the crystal A shadow?
Speaker 1: Why not not?
Speaker 4: What made me glance in the mirror?
Speaker 1: I saw him?
Speaker 4: He was behind me, his eyes glaring green. They were
Speaker 4: eyes have fires, he says, almost black. And then he
Speaker 4: hands He held a piece of green silk cord. It
Speaker 4: was looked and had he slipped not? He was going
Speaker 4: to slip it over my head?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: And then I see it.
Speaker 4: The next thing I knew I was flying among the
Speaker 4: shrubbery and cut that part.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very well, we will look into the mercat.
Speaker 4: You do not relieve me, do you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I would not say that.
Speaker 4: No, idea some day you will regress.
Speaker 1: Goodbye.
Speaker 2: Three weeks later, a wealthy society woman tells a similar
Speaker 2: story to the buddhatest chief of police. Four weeks later,
Speaker 2: another In each instance, the description give by the women
Speaker 2: of the castle of the fiend who drugged them is
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 1: The world war breaks out and the police department.
Speaker 2: Is disrupted, but the citizens of Vienna and Budapest are
Speaker 2: terrified at the alarming number of missing women. On farms,
Speaker 2: in gardens, behind hedges, in abandoned buildings, Bodies in various
Speaker 2: stages of decomposition are found, and all are bodies of women.
Speaker 2: The chief is frantic, and with a woman assistant and
Speaker 2: two detectives scouring the countryside in search of a building
Speaker 2: that will once with the description of the castle, he
Speaker 2: meets a government official.
Speaker 1: Well, Chief, what you're doing out here seeing the country? Why?
Speaker 1: What are you doing here? The government has ordered the
Speaker 1: seizure of old gasoline for the war. You see and
Speaker 1: details of this district and in a few minutes going
Speaker 1: to that castle. Upon the heh, the castle. Let me
Speaker 1: we go with you. Certainly it will be a pleasure. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is her heartman. Here's a gentleman who told us
Speaker 1: us gasoline store at the castle. But getting into the
Speaker 1: cow he should be off. Oh yes, indeed, here around here.
Speaker 4: It's an unusual country, you know, dear.
Speaker 1: There is a tragic story behind Dot Cashle. Indeed, Yah
Speaker 1: Baylor Kiss he owned the castle. It's a very beautiful vibe.
Speaker 1: They were so happy.
Speaker 5: Everybody in the village was happy in their love. But
Speaker 5: the last she disappeared, Poor Baila Kiche was casolic.
Speaker 1: She had run away with a younger man. It was terrible.
Speaker 1: What what did he look like? This Baila Kiss? He
Speaker 1: was a.
Speaker 6: Handsome man, poor elegant, thin face, I would say in
Speaker 6: black haired, high cheek boone.
Speaker 4: It's the same.
Speaker 1: It's the description given by these different women. All right,
Speaker 1: you're looking for very certainly on, but go on. What
Speaker 1: is the finish to the story.
Speaker 6: The old woman went to do the cleaning at the castle.
Speaker 6: Bailey Quis told her she must not go into a
Speaker 6: certain room. They did a bluebeard toy. But the old woman,
Speaker 6: like old old women was inquisitive. She look and so
Speaker 6: what five big facts. We have good reason to believe
Speaker 6: this that's contained gasoline. But here we have the place.
Speaker 6: We'll soon know for certain.
Speaker 1: Out of the car.
Speaker 6: Poor the officers.
Speaker 2: The empty castle rings to their footsteps as they make
Speaker 2: their way to the forbidden room. Strangely enough, the key
Speaker 2: is in the lock. The door creaks. There are the
Speaker 2: five bats against the wall a strong moder of alcohol.
Speaker 2: They move forward and look into the bats, horror stamped
Speaker 2: their faces as they see in each bat a naked woman,
Speaker 2: and around each neck the bluish mark made by the
Speaker 2: strangler's corn.
Speaker 1: Name of all the saint? Where is the raish? This
Speaker 1: is costly. I have come to find gasoline, and I
Speaker 1: find five cops. Hi. Yes, for all the cops he
Speaker 1: found throughout the city.
Speaker 4: The canten Yet the men who did the cash.
Speaker 1: You haven't done on the instant.
Speaker 5: I shall have it done, yes, And you have a
Speaker 5: You know this monster is being a Kiss?
Speaker 1: Where is he? He?
Speaker 5: He was killed in the war.
Speaker 2: Twenty six bodies of women were found buried in Bela
Speaker 2: Kiss's garden. Over one hundred and sixty pawn tickets relating
Speaker 2: to the women's wearing apparel and jewelry. Furious that death
Speaker 2: in the war had cheated him the capture of the monster,
Speaker 2: the Chief returned to Budapest and tried to forget the
Speaker 2: horror of the five bats.
Speaker 1: The war over.
Speaker 2: The Chief is in his office went through the door,
Speaker 2: bursts the woman who had first warned him of Bailakis.
Speaker 1: I have think him.
Speaker 4: I do him to gain a half hour.
Speaker 1: Boy, who what are you talking about? To kill at?
Speaker 1: I saw him at tell Oh, impossible. I have checked
Speaker 1: the war records. He was killing save in nineteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: See here are the records. I have kept him.
Speaker 5: Baila Chiese Gaiah Wounds August ninth, nineteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: I do not care.
Speaker 4: Do you think I could tug at hill?
Speaker 1: Never? Never, I tell you he is still alive. This scene,
Speaker 1: which is impossible, I shaid you Baila Chiesi's date.
Speaker 2: But soon the Chief was to doubt his vehement decisions,
Speaker 2: for within a month he was to hear another story
Speaker 2: of a woman almost strangled under identical circumstances, although at
Speaker 2: a different place.
Speaker 1: From the now empty castle.
Speaker 2: Besides this, the terror of missing women returned to haunt
Speaker 2: the citizens, and once again the decomposed bodies of long
Speaker 2: dead women were found in desolate places. In just a moment,
Speaker 2: you will hear a solution to the strange case of Beilachis.
Speaker 2: The mystery man of Europe.
Speaker 7: Was same as the pump.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, inasmuch as any solution must have necessary
Speaker 2: this supposition liberties of time, place, and character have been
Speaker 2: taken in the solution for which you have been waiting.
Speaker 1: The solution of why the murders continued in the same
Speaker 1: manner as before.
Speaker 2: Bela Kis's reported death in the war is taken from
Speaker 2: the statements of the Chief of Police of Budapest, who
Speaker 2: supplied the information, which, to the best of our belief,
Speaker 2: has never been published in American newspapers. The scene is
Speaker 2: the hospital in which Bela Kiss had been reported as
Speaker 2: having died of wounds. The chief of police, remembering how
Speaker 2: the first woman had warned him of the fiend's activities,
Speaker 2: determines to carry his investigation further than the official army.
Speaker 1: Records reporting death. The chief questions and.
Speaker 5: Nurse, you have cost you the murgers in and around
Speaker 5: Vina and buddhahest Yes.
Speaker 4: Naturally, although like everyone else on war service, I was
Speaker 4: too busy to really keep up.
Speaker 1: With the report.
Speaker 5: Well, we did not give all our information to the place.
Speaker 5: We decided we have bach success by giving something secret.
Speaker 1: I can understand the red. Now, this man the.
Speaker 5: Field is a better name, has probably been responsible for
Speaker 5: his death. From over three hundred wibbits, I would like
Speaker 5: to find out if any hospital records other than the
Speaker 5: official report of Beilakis dead.
Speaker 1: You don't mean that Beila chief is the man who
Speaker 1: suspeed I do. In fact, it isn't suspicion. It is
Speaker 1: an established fact.
Speaker 4: But that's impossible. I nursed Baila Chiefs still a dye.
Speaker 1: And a young and pious, mighty boy at twenty.
Speaker 4: It could hardly Gee, Baila Chiese was over party, not
Speaker 4: the Baila Chiefs who died.
Speaker 1: Here in the hospital.
Speaker 4: He was a young boy, I tell you, and I
Speaker 4: know I nursed.
Speaker 1: Him till he died. Ah, then I had resolution. How
Speaker 1: badly wounded was Bila Chiese when he was brought here?
Speaker 1: I never was, and I hopefully might have covered anyone
Speaker 1: could have seen them.
Speaker 5: He must die, and Bilakis, the real Daila Kiss, undoubtedly
Speaker 5: exchange his identification disc and papers with the wounded man
Speaker 5: knowing full well the young boy would be buried as
Speaker 5: Baila Keith. And he did monstrous, wretched, free to pursue
Speaker 5: his murderous career unhindered.
Speaker 1: But I get him.
Speaker 5: I get him.
Speaker 1: But Budapest raises the chief.
Speaker 2: For four days he works steverishly, taking no one into
Speaker 2: his confidence, but ordering his men to stand by. One
Speaker 2: night to a house on the outskirts of town. Drive
Speaker 2: two police cars filled with officers. The chief leads the
Speaker 2: way from the back of the house to one of
Speaker 2: the upper rooms.
Speaker 5: Send you men, he said, I want to show you silence.
Speaker 5: I am decided in my own mind that Pila Kiss
Speaker 5: has tracked the various women he has killed by had
Speaker 5: practicements in the papers.
Speaker 1: So I decided to use.
Speaker 5: His methods and incited disadpracticements. I read it, young woman
Speaker 5: widow with murdered fortune and with moderately good looks. The
Speaker 5: hires company of men of couture, preferably forty or over,
Speaker 5: but be tall and dark object mathimony.
Speaker 1: And you expect bill a Kiss to answer that he
Speaker 1: has answered it. He'll be here tax here for dawn.
Speaker 1: A man is getting off CHEEZI the kiece looked up
Speaker 1: he's getting back into the tex After down the pairs
Speaker 1: rush the police.
Speaker 2: The taxi with Bila, he's standing on the running board,
Speaker 2: speeds toward the river with the police car in pursuit.
Speaker 1: He's going to shoot take the.
Speaker 2: By Lachis slumps. He's hit, but he hangs on. The
Speaker 2: taxi reaches the bridge, another burst of pullets. Several shots
Speaker 2: take effects, but with one last effort, Bayachies throws himself
Speaker 2: from the taxi, pulls himself over the parapet of the bridge,
Speaker 2: falls like a planet, and disappears forever under the foaming waters.
Speaker 1: Of the Danube.
Speaker 2: And so coincidence the World War, a search for Gasoline
Speaker 2: a nurse who remembered the patient provide the solution for
Speaker 2: a fifteen year old unsolved mystery. Belachis the mystery man
Speaker 2: of Europe.
Speaker 1: In a
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